Self Defense: The Black Panthers

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was Formed in 1966, and was one of the largest BLACK POWER, revolutionary ORGANIZATIONS for the self-determination of Black people that has ever existed. The Black Panthers were famous as well as notorious for bearing arms in defense against police brutality. The Black Panthers has numerous unknown sides of their organization, as they organized dozens of programs that helped disenfranchised black, brown and white people and provided free breakfast and shoes for kids as well as free education and health clinics for both children and adults. Programs that were successful and quickly grew to a Black Lead Revolutionary Party of 5,000 members consisting of branches across the United Sates. At its

Government, facilllitaed by deceased FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. This paper will discuss the emergence of the Black Panthers, their defense activities. Their 10 point agenda focused on black determination and most importantly, what made the Black Panthers different from the Civil Rights Movement and other Black Power organizations, and why the BPP should not be vilified but admired around the world for their Vanguard revolutionary fight against oppression of Blacks and the Proletariat class in

Newton and Bobby Seal, who met in the early sixties while at Merritt Junior College in East Oakland, California. They joined under a banner civil rights movements and black power movement that ignited and changed Black America. Huey Newton and Bobby Seal were active in Black politics for some years before they met at Merritt College and formed the Black Panthers. Party. Bobby Seale was a member the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), and he and he and Huey Newton were both involved in the Merritt college political group “Soul Students Advisory Committee. Political group involvement that was vital in forming the ideology of the Black Panthers Party as well as led to Hooey P Newton and Bobby rejecting cultural nationalists. In his book “Seize the Time, Bobby Seale explains how the Black Panthers Party ideology and Cultural Nationalism philosophy are in abject conflict with one another. As cultural nationalism sees white people as the oppressor with no distinction between whites who were non-racist and whites who are racist which is a distinction made by Panthers whose philosophy embarked non-racist white people. Seal says that” Cultural nationalists” even propose that a Black man is incapable of being the enemy of his Black people. Which is a falsehood as the BPP strongly feels and believe that Black capitalists are on par with their White counter parts when it comes to the oppression and the